Word: paganisme
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6. "The Decadence and the New Paganism."
The striking characteristic of the present time is the urgency for action. Many nations, like China, are in a plastic condition. A spirit of nationalism and of racial patriotism is rising rapidly, with the consequent danger of the conflict of the non-Christians with the Christians. At the same time...
The term "apology" is not really adequate, for Pascal was more than an apologist for religion; he aimed not only at writing an abstract defence of religion, but also at converting the atheists and re-establishing true Christianity against those who partially confused it with paganism. The originality in Pascal...
The history of the drama in France showed this leaning toward paganism to such a marked degree that by 1630 the clergy was unequivocally opposed to it. With the production of Moliere's "L'Ecole des Femmes" in 1662, the long-maturing conflict between the clergy and the new literature...
The bitter opposition of generations of clergy, culminating in this explosion, forced Moliere into open conflict with the church. Professor Lefranc advanced the interesting theory that Moliere wrote "Le Tartuffe," not as an attack against religious hypocrites as a group,. but against religion in general. It was a defence of...